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News – October 2006
Dear Friends and Supporters,
Saving Joey
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Joey Dang Jian Yu |
We have been keeping you updated about Joey. The latest is that we have had a second opinion from a top neuropathologist from Johns Hopkins Hospital who confirms the diagnosis and that his cancer will not respond to treatment. The plan now is for Joey to remain in Beijing till mid November when Lyn Gould, our resident nurse, returns to China to be stationed in our Palliative Care Unit in Luoyang orphanage. Joey comes from this orphanage and he will be put in her capable hands. We know that he will receive the best of care. He is currently not in any pain or discomfort. We are very grateful to all of you have prayed for him, cared for him and provided funds. We are grateful for his surgeons, doctors, pathologists, nurses and volunteers who have given their skills and precious time to help this baby. There are too many of you to name and some of you we have never met personally, but we are still indebted to you for your compassion throughout this ordeal. Please continue to keep him in your prayers.
The funds that have been donated for Joey will be used for his continued care and any left over will be go help other New Hope Foundation children with urgent needs. For those of you who have given generously, if you have any concerns about the use of the extra funds, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Foster Home Shun Yi, Beijing (38 beds)
The babies
We have had an outbreak of chicken pox which we suppose is to be expected when one has so many kids but they are recovering without too many complications. This reduced our numbers going for plastic surgery this year provided by Love Without Boundaries and only 5 (instead of 7) went from Beijing.
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Fu Gao Fei |
Fu Jin Jin |
Aurora |
Fu Gao Fei and Fu Jin Jin have had to be readmitted to hospital for shunt infections but they are now home and recovering well. Aurora has been discharged from hospital in Singapore and is expected home early next month. She went through a very rough time post-operatively but is now well and on her feet. Some of you may remember that Aurora was deemed “inoperable” because her heart condition was rather complicated. Again we express our deepest gratitude to the Surgeons and staff of KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital for saving her life and to her foster family in Singapore for their dedicated care.
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Gabriella Beth |
Gabriella Beth Fu Xiao Meng leaves us in a couple of days to be adopted. She had been with us for the past 2 years. It’s great for her to have a family of her own.
Volunteers
We appreciate the work done by Caroline G, Kathy and Katie T, the groups of 24 students and staff from Queen Mary’s High School (UK) and 15 students and staff from Pathlight School for autistic children (Singapore). We hope that our staff and children have been a blessing to them as they have been to us.
Love Without Boundaries Shun Yi Outreach Foster Program (currently 15 children with possible maximum of 20)
These children have remained well. William was to be adopted but due to unforeseen circumstances he will soon be returned to us in Beijing. His Foster Family has been given another child, Fu Hai Sheng, and he has settled in very well. William will remain with us till his adoption can be sorted out, we hope very soon.
NHF Special Care Unit, Jiaozuo, Henan Province (12 beds)
We have had a new admission, Fu Jiang Ning who has Down’s syndrome, failure to thrive, dehydration and a heart defect. She is improving.
Daisy Lois Fu Chun Yi died on October 7 after a long struggle with brain infections. She had been with us since birth, for the past 17 months and had undergone several surgeries. She was peaceful at the end.
Lena Fu Xue Lang died peacefully in her sleep on October 26.
To date, 81 children have been admitted to this unit and 34 have died.
Volunteers
We thank Janice B and Jamie I (US) and Noel and Erica G (Ireland) for coming back to the Unit to serve. We also thank Parveen K from Singapore KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital for establishing a Physical Therapy program for us. Thanks to this hospital, our children both in Beijing and Jiaozuo now receive daily PT.
Heartbridge Rehabilitation Unit (9 beds)
Love Without Boundaries, amongst their other major achievements, facilitates and funds about 60 surgeries for orphans in China every month. Many of these children come from very small Welfare homes in the more remote parts of China and have little access to treatment. Many of them die before and after surgery because of inadequate care. To help this situation in a very small way, we have offered them a room in our Beijing Home to provide pre- and post-operative care for the children to ensure that they are healthy enough to receive surgery and are healthy enough to be returned to their orphanages after surgery. This unit opened this month. 14 new nannies have been trained and they are funded by Love Without Boundaries.
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Dang Jin Yang (September) |
Dang Jin Yang (October) |
Huai Chun Cong |
Dang Jin Yang whom we admitted last month has been moved to this unit and is improving. We promised an updated photo of her. See the difference a little love makes.
Huai Chun Cong, from Anhui Province, has had heart surgery but is still very malnourished and weak.
NHF Special Care Unit, Luoyang, Henan Province (45 beds)
4 of the children in this Unit left to receive cleft surgeries this month provided by Love Without Boundaries.
Our Most Sincere Thanks To
- James G for the loan of his bouncy castle during the October holidays. The kids had a wonderful time.
- Various visitors and volunteers who brought in medical supplies.
- Our wonderful financial supporters who have been so generous.
Our Needs
Portable playpens such as pictured.
- Warm baby clothes especially sleepers for ages 0-3 years.
- Bibs.
- Medically trained volunteers are urgently needed in our units in Henan for next year. Application forms are on our website or email joyce@hopefosterhome.com.
- Pacifiers, any size, any brand.
- Funds (approximately $20,000) to purchase a vehicle in Henan Province which will be used to transport volunteers, babies and supplies between our two units there.
With our deepest gratitude,
Joyce and Robin Hill
“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
– Lewis Carroll
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